CLAIM MADE IN APPLICATION
“ TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY NEEDED ” (New Zealand Press Association.) AUCKLAND. May 6. Officials of the deregistered section of the Carpenters’ Union have taken legal steps in an effort to prevent the registration of the new Auckland Carpenters'. Joiners’, and Joiners’ Machinists’ Society as an industrial union. A motion for an injunction restraining the Registrar of Industrial Unions from registering the society, or any other, was filed in the Supreme Court in Wellington, and served on the Registrar of Unions on Thursday afternoon. It is not known yet when the hearing will take place. The statement of claim asserts that the registrar has ‘no authority in law to register the sdciety or any other society as a union unless he is satisfied that not less than two-thirds of all the workers engaged in the locality are members of the society, it says that the membership does not, nor does that of any other society other than the union, comprise two-thirds of all the workers.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25797, 7 May 1949, Page 6
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